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Subject Area: Literature
Collection: Banned Books
Topic: Epic Literature

To S r Henry Vane the younger. - John Milton, The Poetical Works of John Milton [1900]

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The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited after the Original Texts by the Rev. H.C. Beeching M.A. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900).

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To Sr Henry Vane the younger.

  • Vane, young in yeares, but in sage counsell old,
  • Then whome a better Senatour nere held
  • The helme of Rome, when gownes not armes repelld
  • The feirce Epeirot & the African bold,
  • Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
  • The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelld,
  • Then to advise how warr may best, upheld,
  • Move by her two maine nerves, Iron & Gold
  • In all her equipage; besides to know
  • Both spirituall powre & civill, what each meanes10
  • What severs each thou ’hast learnt, which few have don.
  • The bounds of either sword to thee wee ow.
  • Therfore on thy firme hand religion leanes
  • In peace, & reck’ns thee her eldest son.